The Crossover Between Youth Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Growing up is a difficult process for many teens across the U.S., as developing a positive self-imag...
Shortage of Child Welfare Workers Straining The System
One of the most important parts of the child welfare system is the professionals who work in it, ded...
Helping States Comply With the JJDPA
When the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) was passed into law in 1974, a part...
When Funding Juvenile Justice Programs, Communities Need to Be Creative
The move away from traditional detention settings for juvenile offenders, and instead toward more re...
Foster Youth and Reliable Education
An estimated 400,000 children are in foster care across the United States at any given time. While f...
Homelessness After Juvenile Detention
Seattle resident David Vanwetter’s living situation as a teen was never entirely stable. He was ofte...
A Juvenile's Right to an Attorney
More than a decade ago, Utah resident Tanner Atwood-Bowen was a teenager the night he and two friend...
Criminal Records Can Follow a Youth Into Adulthood
Many young people worry that their criminal past will follow them throughout their lives. As soon as...
Special Needs Youth and The Juvenile Justice System
When Toney Jennings was arrested in 2010, he was a 16-year-old being raised by his grandmother in Ca...
Student Drug Testing: Helpful or Harmful?
Providing students with a safe and healthy learning environment is the goal of school administrators...
